The Nature of Things

Season 9

The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on CBC Television on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging.

The series is named after an epic poem by Roman philosopher Lucretius: "Dē Rērum Nātūrā" — On the Nature of Things.

Where to Watch The Nature of Things • Season 9

14 Episodes

  • Thomas Edison
    E1
    Thomas EdisonThomas Edison wasn't merely a lone inventful genius. He invented modern research team makes possible technology shaping our world.
  • Human Engineering
    E2
    Human Engineering
  • Materials
    E3
    MaterialsA review of history of man's oldest materials: wood, stone, iron, bronze and glass.
  • Structure
    E4
    StructureDefying force of gravity, man has strewn his structures across earth. This program looks at some of them.
  • Communications
    E5
    CommunicationsMuch of this program deals with basic communications problem of getting a signal through noise.
  • Canals And Tunnels
    E6
    Canals And TunnelsThe great engineers of past - men like DE Lesseps of Suez fame and Panama infamy and Bradley - whose canals were arteries of industrial revolution, sacrificed health and fortune, and sometimes lives.
  • Central Power
    E7
    Central PowerOne test of civilization is ability to organize sources of energy. Central power was something new in 1876.
  • Man And Machines
    E8
    Man And MachinesThe Greek inventor, Alexander Hero, first defined five basic devices which make all machines possible: lever, wedge, wheel, pulley and screw.
  • Land And Water
    E9
    Land And WaterThis program shows how man changes his environment by shaping land he lives on, reclaiming land from sea, making new lakes and rivers.
  • Man Aloft
    E10
    Man AloftThis film looks, sometimes whimsically, at examples of old and modern flying machines.
  • Portable Power
    E11
    Portable PowerMan's first "portable power" device was part of his own body, energy from contraction of long molecules in presence of sugar: muscle power.
  • Machines And Man: Transportation
    E12
    Machines And Man: TransportationAre problems of urban transportation insurmountable? The traffic jams which are a regular feature of city life make it appear so.
  • Machine And Man: Systems Engineering
    E13
    Machine And Man: Systems EngineeringA system, according to Oxford dictionary, is a whole composed of parts in orderly arrangement, according to some scheme or plan.
  • The Rocky Mountains
    E14
    The Rocky MountainsThe beautiful, vast tracts of land in the western Mountain parks of the West Coast and the Rocky Mountains are gradually being destroyed ... by camp sites, roads and towns. As they are opened, their animal life gradually disappears. Now biologists and naturalists are attempting to save plant life and animals, such as the Rocky Mountain Bighorn, elk, moose and goats.

 

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